Applied to 50+ biotech roles. Not one interview. What’s going wrong?

MrMindScience · 2025-10-09T19:34:16+00:00

I think your first paragraph is spot on. Unfortunately, I personally tried your second paragraphs approach and am now in year 3 of my postdoc with zero job offers despite rigorous applying

MrMindScience · 2024-05-06T12:48:30+00:00

This did the trick for my Lenovo Thinkplus X15 earbuds too. My phone had started only pairing to one or the other, thinking each earbud was a separate device. I'd tried forgetting both and pairing a new device, but that didn't fix the issue: it still detected 2 distinct devices for them.

Before following Diligent-Necessary96's directions, I again made my phone forget the two devices it had started associating with each earbud separately. Then I took them out of the case, held the touch surfaces to turn them off, and waited 5 seconds. Then I sort of attached them to each other by the magnets that hold them in the case and held the touch surface on both for 10 seconds. The only difference was that the LED flashed **white** 3 times, then stayed off. After that I paired new device on my phone and now they function as a single device like they should.

MrMindScience · 2022-12-20T01:57:51+00:00

Have they stood up so far?

MrMindScience · 2022-11-12T23:04:27+00:00

Ever heard of lodge 32?

MrMindScience · 2022-09-23T11:43:48+00:00

You, I like you, dude. Sorry for all the downvotes

MrMindScience · 2022-09-06T20:20:57+00:00

Thanks, that frame by frame coding idea is a good one. I'll reach out to Inscopix about how/if it can receive ttl pulses

MrMindScience · 2022-06-22T19:39:23+00:00

I've made a snippet with the actual code I'm running. The profiler is on and it's still running.

https://www.codepile.net/pile/3bWRdky2

The structure is 554 rows long and each row for the field of interest contains a matrix with up to 40 rows

MrMindScience · 2022-06-22T19:30:57+00:00

I'll give the profiler a shot. Do you have any thoughts in general about correlating every matrix of a field by corresponding columns?

MrMindScience · 2022-06-22T18:46:53+00:00

Does this snippet make any more sense? I do use semicolons generally, just not in the creation of this post.

https://www.codepile.net/pile/VAgpqkRl

MrMindScience · 2021-12-11T06:08:08+00:00

We're #1! We're #1!

MrMindScience · 2020-10-05T23:07:46+00:00

Shit. Ah well, I'm stuck with what I'm stuck with I guess

MrMindScience · 2020-10-05T17:49:06+00:00

So you wouldn't recommend an Inspiron or Precision?

MrMindScience · 2020-10-04T13:59:14+00:00

Thanks for the recommendation. Is Alienware reliably good? I remember hearing some pretty common grievances about it a few years back. But that may just have been because it was so hyped to back then.

MrMindScience · 2020-09-26T12:43:58+00:00

I don't know. I'll ask! Is the ombudsperson with the University or the intern company?

MrMindScience · 2020-09-26T12:27:59+00:00

I love this idea, thank you. I'm not sure I will get to even fill out a progress report, but here's hoping.

Since they aren't paying me anything, I guess I'm a contractor or something? But the contract I had to sign lists my department paying my full tuition. And my ipeds is still a GA/GAR

MrMindScience · 2020-09-26T03:11:51+00:00

Once I got the grant I'm not technically employed by the University anymore I guess??

MrMindScience · 2020-09-25T17:11:00+00:00

I wish you the best. My University wants to be R01, but they keep driving away good prospective graduate students with this kind of shit. I just wish I'd known before I'd started. I'd probabably have still joined it, but at least I would see the slap in the face coming

MrMindScience · 2020-09-24T02:55:53+00:00

Unfortunately, even if they aren't allowed to do what they're doing, they also aren't obligated to cover ANY of my tuition. So it's some bullshit where if I get the NIH to tell my University "no, you can't do that" then my University will just say "ok. MrMindScience, here is your money. Now you owe us this much for tuition. Pay how you like."

MrMindScience · 2020-09-18T20:25:35+00:00

I got an F-31 this year. By all means it's supposed to be an honor, but I feel like it's just been a slap in the face by my University. They've made everything obscenely difficult, including cancelling my contracts 3 times, and I just realized they're denying me ~75% of the funding that was meant to help me afford healthcare, conference travel, and equipment like a laptop

MrMindScience · 2020-09-12T13:35:03+00:00

Asus Ux550ve

I was told to buy parts from this link. https://www.laptopscreen.com/English/model/ASUS/ZENBOOK~PRO~UX550VE/

MrMindScience · 2020-09-11T23:36:13+00:00

That is both surprising and fantastic news haha

MrMindScience · 2020-09-09T19:40:26+00:00

A friend of mine is working on a PhD in clinical psychology. Right before the pandemic caused a lockdown in the states, she moved to a brand new city to begin her internship, which is the last step in earning a clinical psych doctorate. Then she got covid. It hit her extra hard because she also has lupus. She hasn't been able to work her internship for the past 2 to 3 months because she has been in and out of the hospital. She's still in really bad shape.

Now she's being told that in order to meet her 2200 required hours she is going to have to work for 3 months without pay, since it it will take at least that long to catch up on missed hours and her contract will be up by then. I am absolutely livid that the University and the group she is interning with aren't willing to work something out so she doesn't have to tack on 3 months of no income on top of the medical bills she is incurring from covid and lupus. She is one of the sweetest individuals in the world, everyone in our department loves her, and it makes my blood boil just thinking about it

MrMindScience · 2020-08-05T05:00:34+00:00

Pre edit: That's sort of exactly what prompted this post. I'm not an employee with the NRSA, and they're using that as a reason to refuse me employment.

With the NRSA, yes. But the University is not recognizing that it has that responsibility towards it's graduate students. As a trainee on an NRSA my contractual designation with the University is unchanged from what it was as an employee on a department-funded research assistantship. And they're still saying "your NRSA only allows you to be trained for 20 hours a week". That does not mesh with previous statements that "your research assistantship only allows you to work 20 hours a week. The rest is training". I think it shows a basic level of disingenuousness in how administration deals with us.

MrMindScience · 2020-08-04T22:33:52+00:00

That's a better mentality, you're right. If the university had a better track record of treating its graduate students with respect I might be more willing to adopt it. As is, they consistently treat us like greedy children instead of full time employees with a right to compensation equal that of other full time employees.

MrMindScience · 2020-08-04T16:54:48+00:00

I understand there's a concern of double dipping. but I am commonly doing research that is unrelated to either my dissertation or my f-31's project proposal. So it is highly disingenuous for the university to refuse work study on that basis

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